Core i9 wikipedia

Since time immemorial (i.e: 2008), Intel CPUs have largely fallen into three distinct categories: you’ve got your entry-level Core i3s, your mid-range Core i5s, and your high-end Core i7s. With the recent introduction of Intel’s new 9th generation of Coffee Lake CPUs, however, the processor giant has now expanded that range with a new Core i9 series, the first and most powerful of which is the super fast Core i9-9900K. The 9900K is by no means the first Core i9 Intel have ever made, of course. It’s just that previously you only tended to find them in workstations and enterprise PCs. With their astronomical prices and ludicrous number of cores, they’ve always been massive overkill for your average gaming desktop, but Intel’s now hoping to change that with the eight-core 3.6GHz 9900K. Is this the best gaming CPU money can buy? Let’s find out. You’ll still have to fork out a considerable amount of cash for the Core i9-9900K – a whopping $580 … [Read more...] about Intel Core i9-9900K review: The fastest gaming CPU has arrived, but good grief the price

Intel has been marketing the new Core i9 9900K as the fastest gaming CPU money can buy - and while a massive amount of controversy has surrounded the accuracy of pre-release benchmarks, the logic is sound. After all, the existing Core i7 8700K holds the title, ahead of its Ryzen 7 2700X competition. The new 9900K adds two additional cores and four threads, while boosting frequencies and increasing cache - improving on the 8700K in every way. Going into this review, my only question was this: to what extent do games actually make use of the additional resources? After all, the 8700K was already a performance monster, and arguably under-utilised. Do we actually need more gaming power? Help comes in the form of Nvidia's recently released GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. It delivers a substantial increase in performance over the Pascal GPUs we've usually used for CPU performance testing, meaning that we have the graphics hardware to drive games faster, to even higher frame-rates. At 1080p, RTX 2080 … [Read more...] about Intel Core i9 9900K review: the fastest gaming CPU money can buy

Intel has finally lifted the lid on the new 9th Gen Coffee Lake refresh CPUs, starting with “the best gaming processor in the world,” the Core i9 9900K. Intel is also set to release the Core i7 9700K, and Core i5 9600K 9th Gen CPUs too. These three new chips mark a return to core-parity between Intel and its AMD rivals, giving the Core architecture a pair of eight-core CPUs to stand against the best of the Ryzen processors. The new CPUs are set to launch on October 19 with prices expected to be around $500 for the top-of-the-line eight-core, sixteen-thread Core i9 9900K monster. Though the fact the Intel i9 is potentially going to be priced so much higher than the nominally equivalent, eight-core, sixteen-thread AMD Ryzen 7 2700K, could make it a difficult sell for the average gamer. Intel CPUs have historically offered a gaming frame rate advantage over their AMD rivals, but with the power of modern GPUs – especially graphics cards you’d pair … [Read more...] about Intel officially unveils the 9th Gen Core i9 9900K, “the best gaming processor in the world” launching October 19

Last month reports emerged that 9th-gen Intel Coffee Lake refreshes will come with soldered heatspreaders instead of thermal interface material. Now a new report has emerged which confirms that Intel Core i9-9900K will come with soldered heatspreader. The report comes from Videocardz, who claims that a source of theirs has shared internal documents with the site detailing that the upcoming 9th-gen Intel Coffee Lake refreshes will come with soldered heatspreaders. These Intel Coffee Lake refreshes include Intel Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, and Core i5-9600K which will probably launch by the end of 2018 and Intel Core i5-9400 will launch in Q1 2019. According to the site, the Intel Core i9-9900K has been confirmed to come with a soldered heatspreader instead of instead of thermal interface material. PreviousNext Before we delve into the specs for the Intel Core i9-9900K let me explain why soldering the heastspreader will be beneficial. The soldered heatspreader will allow for Intel Core … [Read more...] about Intel Core i9-9900K Confirmed To Have Soldered Heatspreader Instead Of Thermal Interface

Intel has made quite a leap in performance for its Coffee-Lake line of processors and now it seems that Intel is preparing a mobile version of its Core i9 processor as specs for the Intel Core i9-8950HK inside unreleased MSI laptop have leaked online. The Intel Core i9-8950HK leak comes from 3DMark who tested out the yet to be released MSI laptop with dual GTX 1080 along with Intel Core i9 mobile processor. According to the leak, the processor has 6 cores with 12 threads and the processor itself will be unlocked meaning users will be able to overclock the i9. Videocardz was able to screenshot the specs for Core i9-8950HK which reveal that the processor will have a base clock of 2.9 GHz and 3.9 GHz with the turbo. While it is just a leak but, it seems that laptop manufacturers have their hands on the chip to manufacture their laptops. In related news, with the launch of Coffee Lake processors, Intel has taken its lead back from AMD in January 2018. According to report, Intel has skipped … [Read more...] about Unlocked Intel Core i9-8950HK With 6 Cores 12 Threads Spotted Inside Unreleased MSI Laptop